The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-03-16
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL Sun.
BAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
THE CALL.


Sunday School Convention Of the United
States and Territories, and British North
American Provinces, will be held I'D. W in
the City of Chicago, Wed nesday, Thurs
day~and Friday, June l, 2, and 3, 1887.
The sessions of the Conve ntion will be
held in the building known as Battery d.
ArHnory, ON Michigan Avenue between
Monroe and Adams Streets. Three session
will be held daily: From $50 a. m, to II
m /; from 2.3O TO p M, and from 6 to 10 in
the evening. The morning sessions will be
dev oted TO the business of the Convention
and to receiving reports from the States,
Territories, Provinces, and from Foreign
Lands; The afternoon sessions, to reports
and special addresses ON M ethods and man.
agement, the evening sessions, to adj
dresses on general subjects connected with
Sunday School work. 1t is expected there
will be an extra session for Primary work
ers, held in one of the public halls, under
the direction Of the National Primary
Teachers Union, on one afternoon of the
Convention.
The General program outline, as adopted
by the Executive Committee held Aug,
is three fold: l. Ingathering, or the Sun
day School Missionary and Mission work.
2. u pbullding, or the work OF sun day
School Instruction. 3. Uniting, or the work
of Sunday School Organization. A detail
ed program will be prepared and submitted
in due time.
Each State, territory and province is enti
tied to one delegate for every forty thousand
(4O,0U0) of population fraction of more
than twenty thousand (2O,J00); delegates to
be chosen by the State, territorial or provin-
cial Interdenominational (noJ denomina
tional) Sunday School Associations. In case
of failure to select or where no organization
exists, application may be made TO the
Chaii man OF the International SIS. Execu-
| utive Committee. Members of the Interna
tional S. ). Executive Committee, and Of the
Lesson committee, are ex-officio members
of the convention and delegates.
| Delegates only will be entitled to partici-
| pate in the business of the convention.
Where persons appointed IS delegates can
not attend, report should be made to the
State, Territorial or Provincial Executive
Committee or to the Chairman of the An
| ternational S. S. Executive Committee, to
| fill vacancies, as the privilege is not trans-
| ferabte.
| Entertainm ent will be provided, If de-
sired, for all accredited delegates (only)
FROM Tuesday evening, May ,3lst, to Satu#-
| day morning, June 4th, provided the names
| of such delegates shall have been received
by the Committee of ArrSn gements not
later, than Wednesday, May 25th; the nam les
| of delegates to be sent to j. M. Hitchcock.
Secretary of Committee of Arrangements
| l46 Madison Street, Chicago. Where names
| are received in time, cards of introduction
| will be returned.
| Delegates will report on arrival to the
Com nAittee at their rooms in the Battery
| building. The Committee will he in attend
ance from Tuesday evening, May 3lst.
| Reduced rates at the hotels will be grant
| ed to delegates and Others attending the
| Convention, at prices ranging from Three
dollars 10 One collar per day. Upon re-
quest, received not later than May Goth, the
Committee will secure rooms at the hotels
The building in which the sessions will
be held will accomm odate between 4 500 and
5000 persons. 1t will be refitted to accom-
modate the Convention, and, at the request
of Sunday School workers from other
places, ilsaGditlon to the seats reserved for
delegates, limited number of seats will be
reserved and sold to pc sons from other
States or from Illinois outside of Chicago,
at $3.50 per seat, good for all the sessions
of the Convention. Applications for re-
served seats must be made before May 30th.
The money'seceived for seats will be used
towards the expense of reftting.
If it can be done under the new Inter-
State Railroad law, arrangements will be
made for reduced rates over the various
railroad lines, of which due notice win be
given. ~ :
1t Is proposed that at this meeting action
be taken to make the Convention truly In
Sensational by arranging for the co-opera-
&ion of Sunday School workers throughout
the world; and, II thought desirable, to
provide for a Convention to be held in
Europe at some future day.
Hsluday School Organizations in all lands
are requested to send statistics and reports
to the Statistical Secretary, E. Payson Por-
ter, 1851 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, U. 8
A., at as early a day as possible.
All newspapers friendly to the Sunday
Schooicause, are requested to publish this
call. {
49, For the Executive Committee,
B. F.JACOBS, Chairman.
Chicago, Feb'y LIST, 1887.